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Ian Feather
Personal blog · ianfeather.co.ukwebprogramming
Ian Feather's personal blog at ianfeather.co.uk covers web and programming. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Web Fonts and the Critical Path”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Ian Feather's post as a write-up of reasons to stop using icon fonts and switch to SVG for website icons.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Web Development writing from Ian Feather
Most-linked posts?
- Web Fonts and the Critical Path2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-25
What Hacker News says?
It's still a hack. It's time to go with SVG instead. Here's a good writeup of reasons to stop using silly icon fonts and start using SVG. http://ianfeather.co.uk/ten-reasons-we-switched-from-an-icon...
Comment linking /ten-reasons-we-switched-from-an-icon-font-to-svg
on “A "Not on Facebook" font icon for your website”Submitted We switched from an icon font to SVG as a story · 145 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Maintainable Style Guide as a story · 61 points
HN discussionSubmitted CSS at Lonely Planet as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted What even is Vanilla JavaScript these days? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Fonts and Critical Path as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Front-end Ops Deck as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guide to Front End Ops as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Fonts and the Critical Path as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Radical Candor in Code Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Destructuring, rest properties and object shorthand as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical Questions Around Web Components as a story · 1 points
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